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seed potato

British  

noun

  1. a potato tuber used for planting

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The seed potato industry says the lost market opportunity into the EU has cost £75m over the last five years.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2025

"The likes of the seed potato industry has been massively impacted. So anything that can reduce that friction has to be welcomed."

From BBC • May 19, 2025

In December, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said a national survey detected no potato wart in seed potato fields not already under surveillance.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2022

My cache included four bags of onion bulbs — maybe 800 in all — three pounds of a seed potato named Katahdin and another three-pound bag of French fingerling potatoes.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2016

It matters not so much whether the seed potato be large or small; it must, however, come from a hill bearing a large yield of fine potatoes.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William